WHAT MAKES A POULTRYMAN? 



instances, unless the person concerned has been educated 

 to it ; first by teaching and example, then through train- 

 ing, and eventually through observation and study of the 

 animals. For 

 real sympathy is 

 not merely a 

 chance matter of 

 tender-hearted- 

 ness ; it is funda- 

 mentally a matter 

 of seeing condi- 

 tions, at least in 

 part, from the 

 point of view of 

 the other being. 

 One who is to 

 deal with living, 

 sentient crea- 

 tures, needs, 

 then, to study 

 these creatures as 

 creatures of feel- 

 ings and of rights. 

 He needs to ob- 

 serve their ways 

 of doing things 

 when they are 

 free to do as they 

 will ; their ways 

 as a group or class, and also as individualities separate 

 members of the group. Indeed, one who goes much 

 among any groups of animals, with eyes at all open, can- 



Sympathy A Necessary Factor 



